shootingStar: MR Spock analyses
desertHermit: It appears to be a GREEN SUN.
shootingStar: Speculations?
desertHermit: None as of yet.
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I need to express my love for Scotty, specifically in the TOS episode "Spectre of the Gun", which is another favourite of mine, because, he's so fucking beautiful in that episode. Him and Bones...ugh I CANT!
Scotty also is funny as fuck in that episode, just necks back the whiskey saying "it's to kill the pain" then Spock looking at him like "😕" saying "but this is painless" then Scotty holding a face back because of the alcohol saying "you should have warned me sooner Mr spock"
THE AMOUNT OF TIMES IVE WATCHED THIS EPISODE JUST FOR MCCOY AND SCOTTY...it's an embarrassingly large amount I have to say
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I had a powerful urge come upon me and I was helpless against it.
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Forget everyone’s nominee for master diplomat, Henry Kissinger, who was as inept as he was ruthless—extending the Vietnam War by seven bloody years to mask his diplomatic failure, turning East Timor over to Indonesia for decades of slaughter until its inevitable independence, cratering US credibility in Latin America by backing a murderous military dictatorship in Chile, and mismanaging Moscow in ways that helped extend the Cold War by fifteen years. Kissinger’s career, as international law specialist Richard Falk observed, has been marked by “his extraordinary capacity to be repeatedly wrong about almost every major foreign policy decision made by the U.S. Government over the course of the last half-century.”
Alfred McCoy - In the Shadow of the American Century
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my fav scene in amok time
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Kirk, lying awake at 2 am: Do you think mankind has overstepped it's boundaries? It feels sometimes like we are fighting a war against our very nature as beings- stuck perpetuating the circle of mistakes and insufficient attempts to fix them.
Spock, also awake: It is unclear, Jim. However, part of what makes your species so admirable is your need to continue that circle- so long as you persevere and continue to fix your mistakes, the imperfections can be discounted. Do you think mankind is so undeserving of the sympathy you so pride yourselves on?
Kirk: Do you think-
McCoy, his pillow over his head: Do you think mankind is ever going to go the fuck to sleep?
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I really like the idea that McCoy's ex wife is Vulcan, so their daughter is half Vulcan. It informs so much of McCoy's behaviour to me.
I like to think his ex is not very into Vulcan culture. She's keeps some of it up, but this is a woman who chose to marry a bumpkin doctor and move to small town Earth. She's not big on the Vulcan stuff. Like, her name is T'Mari or something, but she just goes by Mary. They names their daughter Jo'hana so Mary's parents could pronounce it, but they just say Johanna. Or Jo.
So McCoy is already an expert at half Vulcan physiology, he's just learning the adult male stuff for the first time. And any Spock specific quirks. And he knows his ex, Mary, showed more emotion than Spock ever does so all Spock's arguments about being Vulcan are unconvincing. Of course, Mary mainly showed anger at the tail end of things, but hey. And he really knows what Jo's grin looks like so he knows it won't hurt Spock to smile occasionally
Of course, McCoy is fully forgetting that Spock is an adult and likes Vulcan culture in a way Mary never did and it's fucking up to him what he does. But I think this dynamic gives McCoy good cause to think he knows better (even if he's wrong). And it removes the humans as default attitude McCoy sometimes has
I especially like the idea that McCoy never mentions it cos a. Doesn't like to talk about his ex and b. It's weird to describe your daughter's medical shit in conversation. So one day Spock meets them and is just standing there like whaaat the fuuuck. What the fuck. Whatthefuck.
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Felt like doing a screenshot redraw, just slightly altered.
Imagine Kirk sedated by some feel good hypo, just so he finally gets some REST.
Referenced screenshot under the cut
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